VirBELA hosts $55k Global MBA Competition

VirBELA launched with a global business simulation competition. MBA
students from the top universities around the world worked on
multi-national teams to compete for $50,000. The competition challenged
students’ business acumen as well as their ability to work effectively
on a multi-national team.
Watch a video
of the students in action in VirBELA here or read about the event in the
press.

VirBELA receives innovative education award

In April 2012, GMAC selected VirBELA as a winner in its GMAC MET
Fund Ideas to Innovation Challenge.
The competition sought the best ideas to improve graduate
management education and
VirBELA's proposal was selected as a winner among over 650 ideas
from around the world.
The VirBELA co-founders were awarded $25,000 for their idea and
in 2013, in
collaboration with Rady School of Management - UCSD, were
awarded a $1.74M grant from GMAC to implement their idea.
Since then we have designed and hosted a number of virtual
learning platforms
for various corporations and universities.

VirBELA offers 3D Campuses to Universities

Many online education platforms provide effective solutions for
asynchronous learning,
but do not provide opportunities for social and experiential learning.
Universities have
been using private VirBELA campuses to deliver lectures, offer tutoring,
host office
hours, and run simulations. VirBELA’s platform fosters student
collaboration, emotional
intelligence, and engagement.

“VirBELA has been the ideal tool for student interactions in our
online courses. The
VirBELA team was amazingly helpful in customizing an educational
world which met our
needs. We are now offering a diverse range of undergraduate and
continuing education
courses with sessions in VirBELA.”

Sarah Eichhorn, Associate Dean of
Distance Learning

University of California, Irvine

VirBELA Supports NSF Research on Imagination

The results of the research are expected to have implications in
how digital
environments can be more responsive to individual needs.
Developing a large scale
data analysis scheme for comparing and computing EEG signals
from many users will
be a key development to improving the efficacy of EEG as a
method for
brain-computer interaction.

VirBELA supports Coursera MOOC

One-hundred M.D.s, Ph.D.s, Pharm.D.s, MBAs, and Lawyers are working
on global
multi-disciplinary teams to address drug discovery case studies.
VirBELA compliments
Coursera infrastructure by providing a platform for group
collaboration among
students.

VirBELA wins the "MBA & Professional Education" Oscars Award

Wharton-QS Stars Awards 2014: Reimagine Education took place on
December 9th in Philadelphia. The global competition received
submissions from 427 universities and enterprises from 43 countries
with 21 awards judged by a panel of 25 international experts – a
'who’s who' of higher education. VirBELA was the winner of the "MBA
& Professional Education" award.

About VirBELA

Mission & History

Our mission is to transform learning for everyone, everywhere.

VirBELA was founded by Dr. Alex Howland and Dr. Ron Rembisz who see the importance of connecting learners (whether students or professionals) from around the world and providing them with experiential shared learning experiences.